My good friend Karen Mueller-Harder (whom I have known and worked in theater with longer than either of us would care to admit) runs a summer theater camp for children, associated with the Cabot Community Theater of Cabot, Vermont. For this year’s camp, Karen commissioned me to write two new short plays for kids. Through the course of the week-long camp. she will rehearse the plays, which will be presented publicly on Friday, July 26, at 5:30 PM.

I’m pleased and proud to be part of introducing the newest generation to the wonders of live theater. This marks the first time I’ve written for children (plays, that is; my unpublished novels for teens are another story). The first play, for younger children, is a comic fantasy called “How I Became the Nightmare Queen,” about a young girl who finds that her scary dreams aren’t scary at all, and decides she can make better nightmares herself. The second play, “Reunion,” is for an older set of actors, and is a comic drama about a set of cousins hanging out during a family reunion, wondering why their parents act the way they do.

The plays will be performed at the Cabot School Performing Arts Center. I will be there, and will get a chance to meet with the young actors before the performance.

Cabot Community Theater Summer Theater Camp Presentation
Cabot School Performing Arts Center
25 Common Road
Cabot, VT 05647
July 26, 2019